Word: chillness
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...SISTFR ALISON is in Africa now. About two months ago she and other Peuce Corps volunteers left their training camp in Frogmore, South Carolina, for Mauntania, a barrenarid nation the size of Alaska, just south of Morocco. I am in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is 3 a.m. An autumn chill has penetrated the walls and filled my room, so i must wear a jacket as I type, My sister is so faraway, on the other side of the world, that I imagine is afternoon there right now, I'm not sure what season it is in Mauritania...
...conniving mix-tress are all well cared-for of a dark and stormy eve by the ever-faithful butler when--of all things--the phone lines are cut, candlesticks take on the sinister aspect of murder weapons, and puns about catching one's death of cold begin to chill the air. The bumbling Scotland Yard detective soon appears out of thin air to thicken the plot into a London fog of incest, revenge, hidden pasts, family treasures, eccentric old ladies, and crazies of all ages...
Malaurie is treated hospitably but not coddled. His hosts are communists, not liberals. The wind-chill factors of their lives dictate stern lessons and harsh measures. The aged are no longer left to die, but there are no discounts for senior citizens. Orphans go to the bottom of the social ladder, and the A.S.P.C.A. would not be pleased to learn that some polar dog-owners toughen their animals with hunger and the club...
...have been fortunate that former Astronaut Jack Swigert, 51, has once before survived the icy chill of near tragedy. On his 1970 Apollo 13 journey to the moon, an oxygen tank exploded, prompting a harrowing 3½-day journey back to earth. Now Swigert is undertaking another tense battle. He has learned he has bone-marrow cancer. The Republican candidate in next month's election for a newly created congressional district in suburban Denver, Swigert decided that he would keep on with the race and that he would not keep quiet about the disease. Says he: "We have...
...first spacecraft in the Soviet COSPAS (an acronym for cooperation in space) series. Under discussion since 1975, when Soviet-American cooperation in space was at its apogee with the Apollo-Soyuz linkup, the SARSAT idea is virtually the last of the joint programs that have survived the current chill between Washington and Moscow. One reason: it requires no transfers of hardware or technology. The only tools the satellites have in common is their electronic "language": they must all be tuned to the standard international radio frequencies for distress calls (121.5 and 243 megahertz). Though the U.S. and Canada tested such...